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MonsterEnvy
Feb 4, 2012

Shocked I tell you
The previous page mentions Surge still hates Sonic even if she doesn't hate the world anymore.

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Saoshyant
Oct 26, 2010

:hmmorks: :orks:


Most of the IDW run is available on a digital bundle right now with four days left for just 12€ (I assume $13 or so), DRM-free. That's a ridiculous sale. I think it's missing a couple minis and the more recent issues only.

Link

Rand Brittain
Mar 24, 2013

"Go on until you're stopped."
It seems like it actually only has 8 volumes out of 17, which is a shame, because being able to get stuff like this unencumbered is generally worth doing since you don't have a lot of chances.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

MonsterEnvy posted:

The previous page mentions Surge still hates Sonic even if she doesn't hate the world anymore.



Surge continues to have the best expressions. Also lol mussed hair Kit.

MonsterEnvy
Feb 4, 2012

Shocked I tell you
The comics have lots of fun faces.

Digamma-F-Wau
Mar 22, 2016

I swear, you people see PINK and YELLOW and think, oh, a FRIEND!!
Being a friend doesn't make them YOURS! Those teeth, they BITE!
an indie anthology one-shot from various IDW Sonic creatives just got announced
https://bsky.app/profile/danny8bit.bsky.social/post/3lk4p42ly6c2t
https://bsky.app/profile/danny8bit.bsky.social/post/3lk4p43qeac2t

TwoPair
Mar 28, 2010

Pandamn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta
Grimey Drawer
Neat! I hope it takes off for all those folks!

MonsterEnvy
Feb 4, 2012

Shocked I tell you
That is super awesome.

Veotax
May 16, 2006


So apparently the DC crossover is out tomorrow? You can't seem to buy it digitally in the UK for some reason. I buy the main comic on Amazon Kindle/Conixology/Whatever, but when I look up the DC crossover the only thing that comes up is the collected version that releases in September

Digamma-F-Wau
Mar 22, 2016

I swear, you people see PINK and YELLOW and think, oh, a FRIEND!!
Being a friend doesn't make them YOURS! Those teeth, they BITE!
same in america

TwoPair
Mar 28, 2010

Pandamn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta
Grimey Drawer
The DC crossover is funny because the DC heroes just accept these talking animals in like, record time. There's not even a standard hero fight!

ImpAtom
May 24, 2007

MAV Tactics

TwoPair posted:

The DC crossover is funny because the DC heroes just accept these talking animals in like, record time. There's not even a standard hero fight!

They have absolutely teamed up with Captain Carrot and the Zoo Crew at least once.

kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.
also gorilla grodd and king shark

Veotax
May 16, 2006


Digamma-F-Wau posted:

same in america

Yeah, I ended up waiting for it to go on a scan site. If they're not going to sell it to me, gently caress em!
I'll pick it up if they decide to put it on Kindle at some point, otherwise I'll get the trade later this year.

Really enjoyed the first part though!

Halibut Barn
May 30, 2005

help
I think this is it on Kindle?

https://www.amazon.com/Sonic-Hedgehog-2025-Ian-Flynn-ebook/dp/B0DY3BNM2K/

(They don't make it very easy to find though, since only the trade paperback shows up in search so you have to go to that and then switch it to the Kindle version.)

Veotax
May 16, 2006


Ah, I don't think that was there last time I looked, thanks!

Saoshyant
Oct 26, 2010

:hmmorks: :orks:


This is the dumbest idea for a crossover I've ever seen.

Yet, it works? It's a credit to Ian Flynn but he paired every Sonic character with their perfect counterpart in the JL, what the hell. I'm invested.

MonsterEnvy
Feb 4, 2012

Shocked I tell you
Most of the stories have been very fun.

TwoPair
Mar 28, 2010

Pandamn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta
Grimey Drawer

Saoshyant posted:

This is the dumbest idea for a crossover I've ever seen.

Yet, it works? It's a credit to Ian Flynn but he paired every Sonic character with their perfect counterpart in the JL, what the hell. I'm invested.

Flynn tried with the Batman/Shadow meetup but I don't think he managed to pass "This is where I watched my parents die, Raphael" from the TMNT comic as the most unintentionally hilarious panel of Batman and a random character from another universe.

TwoPair fucked around with this message at 01:43 on Mar 21, 2025

Blockhouse
Sep 7, 2014

You Win!
the Darkseid version of a Death Egg being called the Ragna Rock is a pun so on the nose Jack Kirby would totally have done it

Nodosaur
Dec 23, 2014

Blockhouse posted:

the Darkseid version of a Death Egg being called the Ragna Rock is a pun so on the nose Jack Kirby would totally have done it

that's cuz he did. Ian didn't invent it.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Nodosaur posted:

that's cuz he did. Ian didn't invent it.

Even more wonderfully amazing.

Latest issue has an interesting setup... Kit being overly 'helpful' for Surge's attempted hero turn almost immediately getting to the point of engineering disasters for her to 'save' actually kinda tracks. The whole dark reflection thing aside, it makes a scary amount of sense that him feeling (because he was programmed to) he doesn't exist for any reason other than to serve Surge, and having no real motivations, ideas or moral compass outside of that, gets to a dangerous place quickly.

I do wonder if it's going to get to the point where for Surge to be a hero, she has to have a villain to fight, and if no one else will step up to the plate...


And also on the last bit, there's no way the most paranoid and heavily armed character in the comic, whose main weapon and motif is a sniper rifle, is sitting out in the open like that in an area with sheltered sightlines without very obviously baiting someone out. Rainbow Canyon is also awesome, and may be based on real-life places that look like that thanks to geological shenanigans.

Nodosaur
Dec 23, 2014

Rainbow Canyon, huh? The evidence is really mounting up, Whisper.

MonsterEnvy
Feb 4, 2012

Shocked I tell you

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Even more wonderfully amazing.

Latest issue has an interesting setup... Kit being overly 'helpful' for Surge's attempted hero turn almost immediately getting to the point of engineering disasters for her to 'save' actually kinda tracks. The whole dark reflection thing aside, it makes a scary amount of sense that him feeling (because he was programmed to) he doesn't exist for any reason other than to serve Surge, and having no real motivations, ideas or moral compass outside of that, gets to a dangerous place quickly.

I do wonder if it's going to get to the point where for Surge to be a hero, she has to have a villain to fight, and if no one else will step up to the plate...


And also on the last bit, there's no way the most paranoid and heavily armed character in the comic, whose main weapon and motif is a sniper rifle, is sitting out in the open like that in an area with sheltered sightlines without very obviously baiting someone out. Rainbow Canyon is also awesome, and may be based on real-life places that look like that thanks to geological shenanigans.

Yeah Kit brought up making up disasters for Surge to solve back in the annual.




Kit's fairly cruel, and other people's suffering seems to be the only notable thing he gets happy about outside of helping Surge.

MonsterEnvy fucked around with this message at 19:16 on May 11, 2025

Nodosaur
Dec 23, 2014

DC x Sonic continues to be amazingly fun. What’s NOT fun is Flash fanboys not getting that Sonic’s speed doesn’t adhere to the bullshit made up rules that DC speedsters are bound to and them freaking out every single time Sonic’s shown to be an equal or better to one of them.

Cambria Bold
Jan 1, 2024



Guessing that's a "no" on the return of Chaos Knuckles.

Nodosaur
Dec 23, 2014

And thank god for that

The Awesomesaurus
Feb 15, 2006

I'm too cool to be extinct.

Ian Flynn trying to get Ken Penders to go after DC.

Digamma-F-Wau
Mar 22, 2016

I swear, you people see PINK and YELLOW and think, oh, a FRIEND!!
Being a friend doesn't make them YOURS! Those teeth, they BITE!
https://bsky.app/profile/ianflynnbkc.bsky.social/post/3lpovkmyric2f

Kurui Reiten
Apr 24, 2010

Cambria Bold posted:



Guessing that's a "no" on the return of Chaos Knuckles.

It's actually a way deeper pull than that. It's a reference to a joke contest from the UK Sega Magazine.

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




Nodosaur posted:

DC x Sonic continues to be amazingly fun. What’s NOT fun is Flash fanboys not getting that Sonic’s speed doesn’t adhere to the bullshit made up rules that DC speedsters are bound to and them freaking out every single time Sonic’s shown to be an equal or better to one of them.

At some point in the last like 2 years I noticed that people stopped describing characters based on anything about them aside from power level or things they can do.

It'd be like describing Mario based on stuff in the final boss fight and nothing else.

TwoPair
Mar 28, 2010

Pandamn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta
Grimey Drawer

Cambria Bold posted:



Guessing that's a "no" on the return of Chaos Knuckles.

lol everyone having to dress like superheroes is hysterical. Like I get Silver getting the GL ring gives him the suit but like, everyone else cosplaying heroes makes no sense beyond "I bet this would look funny"

RareAcumen posted:

At some point in the last like 2 years I noticed that people stopped describing characters based on anything about them aside from power level or things they can do.

It'd be like describing Mario based on stuff in the final boss fight and nothing else.

That Death Battle show has a lot to answer for...

alternate answer: Rest in peace Akira Toriyama, but you invented the scouter and raised a generation to try and boil characters down into stat sheets...

TwoPair fucked around with this message at 21:14 on May 21, 2025

drrockso20
May 6, 2013

Has Not Actually Done Cocaine

TwoPair posted:

lol everyone having to dress like superheroes is hysterical. Like I get Silver getting the GL ring gives him the suit but like, everyone else cosplaying heroes makes no sense beyond "I bet this would look funny"

That Death Battle show has a lot to answer for...

alternate answer: Rest in peace Akira Toriyama, but you invented the scouter and raised a generation to try and boil characters down into stat sheets...

It's because they thought those members of the Justice League had died saving them so they decided to take their places

Agent Rush
Aug 30, 2008

You looked, Junker!

TwoPair posted:

lol everyone having to dress like superheroes is hysterical. Like I get Silver getting the GL ring gives him the suit but like, everyone else cosplaying heroes makes no sense beyond "I bet this would look funny"

That Death Battle show has a lot to answer for...

alternate answer: Rest in peace Akira Toriyama, but you invented the scouter and raised a generation to try and boil characters down into stat sheets...

Given that power levels in DBZ were expressly a joke that continually lead to the downfall of villains who relied on them due to underestimating the heroes, it's just another demonstration that media literacy isn't real.

Kurui Reiten
Apr 24, 2010

The Sonic speed comparison is incredibly simple, too. Sonic's normal max is speed of sound. He can go a bit faster than that if he pushes. Super Sonic can supposedly go speed of light.

Meanwhile, Flash's speed is effectively "yes". His upper limit is at the very least multiple times the speed of light. The Speed Force lets the Flash go at speeds that are best defined as "infinite". You do not go faster than Flash unless the writer says you do, and generally there's some reason you can keep up with "man whose body is powered by goes fast".

Sonic just can't do that, and that's fine, and the comic portraying them as equals is more or less "Those races were for charity, Clark" levels of handwaving. No big deal.

TwoPair
Mar 28, 2010

Pandamn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta
Grimey Drawer

drrockso20 posted:

It's because they thought those members of the Justice League had died saving them so they decided to take their places

I mean I get that but also I don't get how the logic of "when villains know (for example) Wonder Woman is dead they'll start acting up" leads to "we should put Amy Rose in Wonder Woman cosplay (and I guess the lasso made the trip too?)"

But it's just a silly story where Sonic & Co. get to dress up as superheroes so it really doesn't deserve any overthinking.

The Bee
Nov 25, 2012

Making his way to the ring . . .
from Deep in the Jungle . . .

The Big Monkey!

Kurui Reiten posted:

The Sonic speed comparison is incredibly simple, too. Sonic's normal max is speed of sound. He can go a bit faster than that if he pushes. Super Sonic can supposedly go speed of light.

Meanwhile, Flash's speed is effectively "yes". His upper limit is at the very least multiple times the speed of light. The Speed Force lets the Flash go at speeds that are best defined as "infinite". You do not go faster than Flash unless the writer says you do, and generally there's some reason you can keep up with "man whose body is powered by goes fast".

Sonic just can't do that, and that's fine, and the comic portraying them as equals is more or less "Those races were for charity, Clark" levels of handwaving. No big deal.

To be fair, the answer here apparently included Chaos Control.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

TwoPair posted:

I mean I get that but also I don't get how the logic of "when villains know (for example) Wonder Woman is dead they'll start acting up" leads to "we should put Amy Rose in Wonder Woman cosplay (and I guess the lasso made the trip too?)"

But it's just a silly story where Sonic & Co. get to dress up as superheroes so it really doesn't deserve any overthinking.

It's got precedent, see Reign of the Supermen and Knightfall.

Oxxidation
Jul 22, 2007

not sure if that flash cosplay is a costume or dyed on and I don’t envy sonic trying to remove it in either case

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TwoPair
Mar 28, 2010

Pandamn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta
Grimey Drawer

Oxxidation posted:

not sure if that flash cosplay is a costume or dyed on and I don’t envy sonic trying to remove it in either case

I feel like Sonic's wearing a costume. Now Shadow dyeing the red parts of his quills/fur for his Batman look? That's 100% commitment to the bit.

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